Self Guided Illustrated Historical Walks

Each book in this series is a self guided historical walk through Annandale. Each walk explores the people and construction of Annandale. Each book covers two decades of Annandales History a hundred years apart. The first book in the series, 1890s Annandale: A Short Walk, covers the 1790s and 1890s.

New Short Walk Books now Available!

Also recently released is a second edition of Annandale's Great War: A Short Walk. This book looks at Annandale between 1910-1920 when the Annandale Viaduct was constructed. It guides you past Annandale's numerous WW1 memorials and honour board with stories of the people named on them including Douglas Grant and the wireless Miller Brothers.

Paperbacks are now available from the Annandale Village Newsagent, 113 Johnston Street.Ebooks are available on iBooks, Lulu, Nook

April - June is the Time of Marrai'gang
Bana'murrai'yung (wet becoming cooler) when the cries of the Marrai'gang (Quoll)..more

Kirkin O the Tartan

Pipes and Drums will precede the 10am Church Service which commences with the Piping in of Flags and Clan Banners.
During the Service the Kirking Prayer and Bible readings will be read by Council members and this year's guest of Honour, and we will be assisted in our worship by the Australian Gaelic Singers under the leadership of Mr Robin MacKenzie-Hunter.

The service will conclude with the Flags and Banners being piped out, followed by the Organ postlude and then some more pipes and drums during morning tea.

Organist for the day will be Mr Edward (Ted) Grantham of Scots Church Sydney who will make Hunter Baillie's heritage Hill and Son's Pipe Organ sing.

Please join us and yes bring or better wear your tartan, but be warned the ministaire will be in a Kilt.

What's on in Annandale (20 June 2016)

Call for submissions to Audit into Approval and Administration
of Commonwealth Funding for the WestConnex Project
https://www.anao.gov.au/work/performance-audit/approval-and-administration-commonwealth-funding-westconnex-project

Kirkin O the Tartan
Church Service with the Piping in of Flags and Clan Banners
10am SUNDAY JUNE 26th
http://hunterbaillie.org.au/

Council Amalgamation: Nine [of 12] former Leichhardt Councillors will sit on the Leichhardt Local Representation Advisory Committee
http://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/news/media-releases/successful-lrac-meetings

Council Amalgamation

In May 2016, Leichhardt Council was amalgamated with Marrickville and Ashfield Councils and the newly formed Inner West Council is in Administration. The last Leichhardt Municipal Councillors for the Gadigal Ward were: Daniel Kogoy, Vera-Ann Hannaford and Linda Kelly

1940s Annandale: A Short Guided Walk

The 1940s saw Annandale's factories turned to the war effort. Gunsights and Mosquito Bombers were churned out and bomb shelters erected. The end of the decade saw the absorption of the Annandale, Glebe and Balmain boroughs into the Leichhardt Municipality. The one hour walk will be guided by Marghanita da Cruz, who has been publishing the Anecdotal History of Annandale on the Web since 1998 and guiding historical walks since 2011.

The Roaring Forties - Veteran harmony singers with a cartload of traditional and finely-crafted contemporary folk songs about Australian social, industrial and political history, with rousing shanties and choruses.

A jolly and raucous night of singing old songs, making new friends, and discovering your sea legs. Sometimes a fiddle & accordion, sometimes a cappella, and always a lot of fun choruses to get you singing like a salty dog! Shanty Club has a history of surprise guests, an encouraging, inclusive atmosphere, and noise-complaint-worthy volume levels!

David Saffir

Three Piece Suite - Europa

Europa takes in 3 centuries and 4 countries in 5 varied works.
*Madrid in 1772, with Boccherini's colourful Trio in D major,
*Vienna in 1798 for Beethoven's dramatic and stormy Trio in Cminor and 1816, Schubert wrote his wistful, unfinished Trio in Bb major
*Terezin in 1944, the Nazi concentration camp where Czech composer Hans Krasa was interned. His Tanec (Dance) evokes the sounds and rhythms of trains, an eerie premonition of the one that would soon take him to his death in Auschwitz.
England in 1975, with Howard Blake's optimistic and pastoral Trio.

PERFORMANCE LIFE STILL at Tony Twigg Moonbathing Exhibition

Container Deposit Scheme

NSW Container Deposit Scheme: Discussion paper (PDF 872KB) The discussion paper explores the key elements that will shape the design of the CDS and presents two possible models.
To ensure that the scheme is well suited to NSW, the NSW Government has committed to broad consultation with the community and key stakeholders.
What do you think?..more

Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church 127th Anniversary

3pm 28 February 2016

Eva's Vintage

After eleven years, Annandale's vintage fashion pioneer is moving out of the Colannade shopfront to a more agile style of retail. Eva Arrese who came to live in Annandale in 1970, has intermittently returned to Spain. Eva plans to take her love of vintage clothing and accessories in a new direction and explore pop-up stores, events and curated designer collections.

Eva is offering subscribers to her mailing list the chance to win the leopard print raincoat that has hung outside her shop on rainy days.

"I am giving the French Vintage rain coat away is because over the years so many ladies have wanted to buy it that it's only fair now to give it away so everyone has a chance." - Eva Arrese

public meeting to discuss the proposed amalgamation.

"The green outline represents the proposed boundary. Click the Existing Boundary button to show the current boundary outline of the council(s) impacted by the proposal. Informed by four years of extensive council and community consultation, supported by independent analysis and modelling by KPMG".... more

Parramatta Road (at Mallet Street, Camperdown/Annandale; near Larkin St and near University Avenue)

Bus Priority Program: "Considering the interest in the proposal and following a request from Leichhardt City Council, we are extending the consultation period until late January. Transport for NSW and Roads and Maritime Services are seeking feedback by Friday 29 January 2016.

Under the proposed redistribution of electorial divisions most of Annandale will move from the federal electorate of Sydney to the electorate of Grayndler. This includes the pocket between Booth Street, Mallet St, Parramatta Road and Johnston's creek formerly Camperdown and is now Annandale but not the pocket of Annandale, between Wigram Road, Johnston's Creek & Booth Street which remains in Sydney. More about new boundaries as of Oct 2015 at www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/Redistributions/2014/nsw/proposed-report/

Laughing Treefrog (Litoria tyleri or peronii)

This little frog was discovered by Bronwen Campbell amongst the tubestock in the Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery on 13 January 2016.

Annandale NSW was historically bounded by Rozelle Bay (Port Jackson/Sydney Harbour), Parramatta Road, Johnston's Creek and White's Creek. However, in 1995, the Annandale boundary was extended across Johnston's Creek to include the part of Camperdown, bounded by Booth Street, Mallet Street and Parramatta Road.

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